Further proof, if you haven 't already seen or heard it, that this Republican Party President, Donald Trump, is, in face, beyond his now-usual reckless but become dangerous, no overstatement.
Federal law bans advocating the overthrow of government
President Trump incited insurrection Friday against the duly elected governors of the states of Michigan, Minnesota and Virginia. Just a day after issuing guidance for re-opening America that clearly deferred decision-making to state officials — as it must under our Constitutional order — the president undercut his own guidance by calling for criminal acts against the governors for not opening fast enough.
Trump tweeted, “LIBERATE MINNESOTA!” followed immediately by “LIBERATE MICHIGAN!” and then “LIBERATE VIRGINIA, and save your great 2nd Amendment. It is under siege!” This follows Wednesday’s demonstration in Michigan, in which armed protestors surrounded the state capitol building in Lansing chanting “Lock her up!” in reference to Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, and “We will not comply,” in reference to her extension of the state’s coronavirus-related stay-at-home order. Much smaller and less-armed groups had on Thursday protested on the state capitol grounds in Richmond, Va., and outside the governor’s mansion in St. Paul, Minn.
This President has been a lot of things these past 3 years, most of them reckless, ill-advised, wrong, impetuous---a lot of things. But with this, as with, as I wrote here earlier, his call to de-fund the World Health Organization during this most deadly pandemic in the last 100 years, with this he has now become dangerous.
Literally dangerous.
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